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Philadelphia Health IT Summit
2017-08-10 - 2017-08-11    
All Day
About Health IT Summits U.S. healthcare is at an inflection point right now, as policy mandates and internal healthcare system reform begin to take hold, [...]
International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
2017-08-24 - 2017-08-26    
All Day
The Kuala Lumpur 2017 programme The theme for the programme is Aim. Act. Achieve. We look to aim high with our goals for quality improvement this year. [...]
Events on 2017-08-10
Philadelphia Health IT Summit
10 Aug 17
Philadelphia
Events on 2017-08-24
Videos

EHRs linked to improved care for patients with diabetes

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Researchers examined the medical records of 169,711 diabetic patients over 1 year of age in the Kaiser Permanente diabetes clinical registry before and after the implementation of Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect®, the organization’s comprehensive EHR system. They found that patients visited the emergency room 29 fewer times per 1,000 patients and were hospitalized 13 fewer times per 1,000 patients annually after the implementation: